PIN37 HOW MANY IMMUNIZATION DOSES WERE MISSED IN PEDIATRICES YOUNGER THAN 2 YEARS?

Impact of community volunteers on immunization rates of children younger than 2 years.

OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of a volunteer-driven outreach program on immunization rates in children younger than 2 years. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. SETTING Pediatric ambulatory clinics in New York, NY. PATIENTS A total of 163 children were randomly assigned to receive services from the volunteer-driven outreach program or to serve as control subjects. All children wer...

How Many Seals Were There?

Predicting how marine mammal populations respond to habitat changes will be essential for developing conservation management strategies in the 21st century. Responses to previous environmental change may be informative in the development of predictive models. Here we describe the likely effects of the last ice age on grey seal population size and distribution. We use satellite telemetry data to...

Interstitial Lung Disease in Children Younger Than 2 Years.

Childhood interstitial lung disease (chILD) represents a highly heterogeneous group of rare disorders associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Although our understanding of chILD remains limited, important advances have recently been made, the most important being probably the appreciation that disorders that present in early life are distinct from those occurring in older children ...

Laparoscopic dismembered pyeloplasty in children younger than 2 years.

PURPOSE Since the first laparoscopic pyeloplasty was described in a child in 1995, there have been several reports of pyeloplasty in older children. However, to date there have been few reports of laparoscopic pyeloplasty in infants and toddlers. The aim of this study was to evaluate the results of laparoscopic pyeloplasty in children younger than 2 years. MATERIALS AND METHODS All laparoscop...

Epidemiological Survey of Enteroviral Meningitis in Children Younger than 14 Years in Ahvaz